Police on Teesside have praised the vast majority of reopened pubs, bars and restaurants for doing their best to follow the coronavirus rules.
This weekend saw queues on streets and packed outside seating areas, with people meeting for the first time in months, as restrictions eased.
Sarah Best from Dr Watson's said Saturday night was had given them some challenges.
"It's totally crazy, it's like being in a playground, it's like trying to keep the customers seated and trying to keep the customers from not retaliating because they're not used to drinking and it's like a different world to what we were before the pandemic started," she said.
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Officers were on patrol across the town checking premises were trying to keep people safe while trying to build up their businesses again.
Julie Spensley from The Dickens, where a queue had formed while people used track and trace to check in, said it was a good atmosphere
"Everybody's really happy, everybody has been really, really good, we can't believe how good everyone has been," she said.
Cleveland Police says it will continue to encourage and explain rules to licensed premises but will take enforcement action if premises don't follow the law.
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Lottery winners create bird box wall at school
A couple who won £1m on the National Lottery have decorated and donated bird boxes to a Newcastle school.
Kate and Darren Donaghey are among a number of winners who have been making the bird boxes for Thomas Bewick School in West Denton, which looks after children with autism.
Pupils at the school, who include the couple's children, will be able to watch the birds nest and chicks hatch via a camera system installed in one of the boxes.
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More than 40 bird boxes have also been given to the school, so the children can decorate them and put them in their gardens at home.
Quote Message: The bird box project has been wonderful, it is fantastic to have been able to do something for the school and something which will bring so much pleasure to hundreds of schoolchildren.” from Kate Donaghey National Lottery winner
The bird box project has been wonderful, it is fantastic to have been able to do something for the school and something which will bring so much pleasure to hundreds of schoolchildren.”
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Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team says it is seeing the busiest start to its year for a long time, with volunteers called out nine times in nine days.
The team says it's a 41% increase on the average for the same period across the previous three years.
Call-outs have ranged from weather-related ones at the beginning of the year, to a couple becoming stranded on Roseberry Topping after deciding to climb it in high winds at night.
As lockdown restrictions are relaxed and more people venture out and about, Gary Clarke from the team said: "If it continues that way for the rest of the year we'll either equal or surpass our record year."
He said most people have been well prepared.
"This last group of call-outs we've had three walkers who were all kitted out with correct footwear et cetera and it's just very simple to slip and fall, in these cases they were all broken legs, and we had a man on Saturday who was properly kitted out and well prepared and he was taken ill on the day," he said.
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Police on Teesside have praised the vast majority of reopened pubs, bars and restaurants for doing their best to follow the coronavirus rules.
This weekend saw queues on streets and packed outside seating areas, with people meeting for the first time in months, as restrictions eased.
Sarah Best from Dr Watson's said Saturday night was had given them some challenges.
"It's totally crazy, it's like being in a playground, it's like trying to keep the customers seated and trying to keep the customers from not retaliating because they're not used to drinking and it's like a different world to what we were before the pandemic started," she said.
Officers were on patrol across the town checking premises were trying to keep people safe while trying to build up their businesses again.
Julie Spensley from The Dickens, where a queue had formed while people used track and trace to check in, said it was a good atmosphere
"Everybody's really happy, everybody has been really, really good, we can't believe how good everyone has been," she said.
Cleveland Police says it will continue to encourage and explain rules to licensed premises but will take enforcement action if premises don't follow the law.
Lottery winners create bird box wall at school
A couple who won £1m on the National Lottery have decorated and donated bird boxes to a Newcastle school.
Kate and Darren Donaghey are among a number of winners who have been making the bird boxes for Thomas Bewick School in West Denton, which looks after children with autism.
Pupils at the school, who include the couple's children, will be able to watch the birds nest and chicks hatch via a camera system installed in one of the boxes.
More than 40 bird boxes have also been given to the school, so the children can decorate them and put them in their gardens at home.
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Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team says it is seeing the busiest start to its year for a long time, with volunteers called out nine times in nine days.
The team says it's a 41% increase on the average for the same period across the previous three years.
Call-outs have ranged from weather-related ones at the beginning of the year, to a couple becoming stranded on Roseberry Topping after deciding to climb it in high winds at night.
As lockdown restrictions are relaxed and more people venture out and about, Gary Clarke from the team said: "If it continues that way for the rest of the year we'll either equal or surpass our record year."
He said most people have been well prepared.
"This last group of call-outs we've had three walkers who were all kitted out with correct footwear et cetera and it's just very simple to slip and fall, in these cases they were all broken legs, and we had a man on Saturday who was properly kitted out and well prepared and he was taken ill on the day," he said.
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His camera was found in his car but widespread searches have found nothing.
Mr Blyth is described as 5ft 10in, of slim build and short grey hair. He was last seen wearing a black North Face coat and grey outdoor trousers.